It's an awful long time ago since I wrote a blog, but of course it was December. Not quite my time of the year. Of course: when everybody has arrived it's enjoyable, but all the things one has to do before that...

All those people (children) visiting, also meant, that the computer wasn't free most of the time, which also made blogging impossible. Apart from that we are the happy owners of a Nintendo Wii now, which was very popular these last few weeks. Playing all together was great fun!

There wasn't much time for any textile activities either. I did some knitting, but that didn't really cheer me up. I had treated myself to some beautiful yarn to knit a sweater for myself, had chosen a pattern I liked a lot and started knitting enthusiastically. The lower body of the sweater is knitted in the round, so that no side seems have to be sewn afterwards. This is a job I tend to put off sometimes. But it is pretty hard to measure something on a circular needle. The work didn't seem right to me and on top of that I didn't like the way it felt. When I had reached the upper part, where the sleeves will be attached, I pulled out the needle and tried it on. Yes. It did fit. Just. Not feeling nice. Not pretty. Knitting felt much too tight. So I started again with a new ball of yarn, fewer stitches and bigger needles. Let's hope it will be better now. I nearly have reached the sleeves again. At least the knitting feels better now.

En natuurlijk zijn er altijd sokken om te breien. meer daarover in een volgende blog. Eigenlijk bewaarde ik ze voor de s in mijn abc-along. Maar 2008 is voorbij en het is dus niet gelukt om in een jaar alle letters af te werken. Omdat het me nu soms weerhoudt, om de 'gewone' bezigheden te beschrijven, laat ik het er maar even bij voorlopig.And of course there are always socks to knit, but more about that in a next blog. Actually I kept them for the s in my abc-along posts. But 2008 is over and I have not succeeded in using all the letters of the alphabet in one year. Because now it sometimes keeps me from describing my 'normal' activities, I'll leave it for the moment.